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10-04-2013, 10:37 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Leaseweb: Anyone had this issue with leaseweb with upgrading /adding HD to server
So I got their quote to add 500Gig drive is 5 euro month plus 49 euro setup.
Turns out setup is just putting it in and support tells me:
"You can check this by issuing a 'fdisk -l' command on the command line. The new disk is accessed through /dev/sdb. You will need to partition, format and mount the disk before you can write data to it.
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10-04-2013, 10:40 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Sounds completely reasonable to do it this way. Only you know how would you like to have this HDD partitioned and where to have it mounted?
To partition / mount it for you, they would need instructions from you and access to your server (i.e. password). Is this a managed server?
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10-04-2013, 10:54 AM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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Its additional drive to whats already there. I want it same way as everything else to resolve "out of space" issue.
Server is unmanaged but I figured if they charge 49 euros to set it up it should be ready to go.
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10-04-2013, 11:11 AM #4Junior Guru
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Do you know how to partition a drive?
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10-04-2013, 11:14 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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For unmanaged servers like LeaseWeb, yeah, it's quite normal. It'll take you about five minutes to format and mount, a quick Google should turn up countless guides.
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10-04-2013, 11:16 AM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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I have admin who does it.
Im not knocking down on leaseweb, just wondering if this is standard for webhosts to do it this way.
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10-04-2013, 11:19 AM #7Web Hosting Guru
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I wouldn't like it if they wanted access to my unmanaged server to partition it for me.
The 49 euro setup is for the remote hands to install it. Did you require downtime to replace it? If so then it probably wasn't just hotswappable and they had to go inside of the server. That price for 30mins-1hr of work isn't extreme.
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10-04-2013, 11:19 AM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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Like I said, I was surprised that installation fee didn't include 5 minute job. I'm not a server guy, so I don't risk touching any configs or formatting drives.
Right now my admin can't even reach the server because its been down for few hours I hope this is not related to new HD upgrade
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10-04-2013, 11:43 AM #9Quality Web Hosting Matters
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Yes it is normal. The hosting provider added the hard drive for you and it is up to you how to partition it and mount the filesystem.
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10-04-2013, 11:53 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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Ok, thanks for your replies. Now all I need is get it up and running. looks like its been down since midnight.
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